Ashima

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Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary


Goddess of the moon Semitic
Gods and Goddess Reference


ASHIMA.—A god whose form of worship is unknown, and who has been identified with the Phœnician Eshmun and the Babylonian Tashmitu. As Hamath, the god’s seat of worship (2Ki_17:30), was occupied by the Hittites, the deity was probably non-Semitic.
N. Koenig.
Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible
Edited by James Hastings, D.D. Published in 1909


The idol of Hamath, introduced by the Hamathites, the colonists planted in Samaria by Esarhaddon king of Assyria (2Ki_17:24; 2Ki_17:30; Ezr_4:2; Ezr_4:10); represented as a goat with short hair, answering to the Egyptian form of the Greek god Pan, to whom the goat was sacred. The Phoenician god Esmun, answering to the Greek AEsculapius as well as Pan.
Fausset's Bible Dictionary
By Andrew Robert Fausset, co-Author of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown's 1888.


Ash'ima. A god of the Hamathite colonists in Samaria. 2Ki_17:30. It has been regarded as identical with the Pan of the Greeks.
Smith's Bible Dictionary
By Dr. William Smith.Published in 1863


a-shı̄?ma, ash?i-ma (אשׁימא, 'ăshı̄mā'; Ἀσιμάθ, Asimáth): A deity worshipped at Hamath (2Ki_17:30) of whom nothing further is known. It has been suggested that the name is the same as that of the goddess Simi, the daughter of the supreme god Hadad, who was worshipped at Membij, but there is nothing to support the suggestion.
International Standard Bible Encyclopedia
PRINTER 1915.


Ash?ima (2Ki_17:30), only once mentioned in the Old Testament as the god of the people of Hamath. The Babylonian Talmud, and the majority of Jewish writers, assert that Ashima was worshipped under the form of a goat without wool; the Talmud of Jerusalem says, under that of a lamb. Elias Levita, a learned Rabbi of the sixteenth century, assigns the word the sense of ape. Jurieu and Calmet have proposed other fanciful conjectures. The opinion that this idol had the form of a goat, however, appears to be the one best supported by arguments as well as by authorities.
The Popular Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature
by John Kitto.


Ashima
(Heb. Ashima', אֲשִׁימָא, etymology unknown; Sept. Α᾿σιμάθ), is only once mentioned in the Old Testament as the god of the people of Hamath, whose worship the colonists settled by Shalmanezer introduced into Samaria (2Ki_17:30). The Babylonian Talmud, in the treatise Sanhedrin (cited in Carpzov's Apparatus, p. 516), and the majority of Jewish writers (see Buxtorf, Lex. Talm. col. 236), assert that Ashima was worshipped under the form of a goat without wool; the Talmud of Jerusalem (Carpzov, ib.) says under that of a lamb. Elias Levita, a learned rabbi of the sixteenth century, assigns the word the sense of ape; in which he was, in all probability, deceived by the resemblance in sound to the Latin simia. Jurieu and Calmet have proposed other fanciful conjectures. Aben Ezra's ascription (Praef. ad Esth.) of the name to the Samaritan Pentateuch at Gen_1:1, may be seen in Hottinger's Exercit. Antimo in. p. 40. The opinion, however, that this idol had the form of a goat appears to be the one best supported by arguments as well as by authorities (see Seyffarth, Systema astron. p. 154 sq.). This agrees with the Egyptian worship of Pan (see Selden, De diis Syr. p. 327, 305 sq.), as well as the appearance of the goat among the sacred animals delineated on the Babylonian relics (Millin, Monumens inedits, i, tab. 8, 9). Some have compared the Samaritan Ashmath (אשׁמת) of Deu_14:5 (see Castell, Annot. Samar.), a kind of buck. Barkey, on the other hand (in the Biblioth. Brem. nov. I, i, 125 sq.; II, iii, 572 sq.), refers to the Phoenician god Esmun (Εσμοῦνος, Damasc. in Photii Biblioth. p. 242, 573; in Phoenician אשמן, Gesenius, Monum. Phcen. i, 136), corresponding to the god of health, the Greek AEsculapius (see Movers, Phoniz. i, 529 sq.). Hiller (Onomast. p. 609) proposes a Semitic etymology from the Arabic asamat, a title of the lion applied to the sun; and Lette (in the Biblioth. Brem. nov. I, i, 60 sq.) compares Asam, the Arabic name for a valley or river of the infernal regions. Gesenius (Comment. iub. Jesa. ii, 348) refers to Ashuma, or the genius (star) of Jupiter (the heaven), i.e. Mercury, of the Zend-Avesta (Bundehesh, iii, 66); but against this Kleuker (in loc.) objects that in the Paris edition (ii, 356) the name is Anhouma. (See Schulde, De Asima Hamathweor. idolo, Viteb. 1722.)



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